RE: [merlin] seperate system and user repositories

["Farr, Aaron" <Aa...@am.sony.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen McConnell [mailto:mcconnell@apache.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 6:27 PM
> To: Avalon Dev
> Subject: [merlin] seperate system and user repositories
> 
> 
> After digging around with the PhoenixJMS block and looking at some of
> the things that people are doing, I'm comming to the conclusion that we
> should seperate the local repository used by merlin during bootstrap
> from the local repository we use for the client.
> 
> The reasons are:
> 
>   (a) that it is really easy to screw up the merlin installation
>       if a client copies content into the repository that overrides
>       merlin jars
> 
>   (b) if the system and client repositories are seperate, then
>       system updates become more predictable (we can just delete
>       the repostory and add the new one)
> 
> The ability to do this is actually already in place in the code as this
> is what happens when you use the -system command option.  All that would
> be needed is for the the default system repository to point to something
> different such as "%MERLIN_HOME%\system" while the user repository would
> continue to point to "%MERLIN_HOME%\repository".
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Steve.
> 

+1

J. Aaron Farr
  SONY ELECTRONICS
  DDP-CIM
  (724) 696-7653

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